Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puget Island in the Columbia River 70 mi. from Portland, a child was at the crisis of pneumonia. Three other children and two women had influenza. Boats could not reach them through the crazy river ice. Dr. Ernest Lloyd Boylen, 32, of Portland, flew to them at night in a plane, made a precarious landing in the flares of torches and bonfires the island fishermen...
...General Election of last spring all Liberals stood together. Shoulder to shoulder fought the witty, opportunist youngsters who follow David Lloyd George, and the grave, steady-going oldsters who, like Lord Grey, are chiefly composed of moral fibres. It seemed as if the old feud between the factions had been extinguished, as though Lloyd George's titular leadership of the party had been finally accepted by the old Asquith faction misnamed the "Liberal Council" and headed by Lord Grey. Then, last week, with spectacular abruptness. Grey of Fallodon calmly declared: "Things were said during the last election...
Continued he: "It is right, of course, that the leader of the party should have a good deal to do in how party funds are spent, but this is different. Mr. Lloyd George, in effect, told us [on the eve of the General Election] that if we didn't do what he wanted we would get no money. But even if the Liberal party can clear itself of its dependence upon Mr. Lloyd George's money there is still the question of our want of confidence in his leadership...
While last week's explosives were detonating below him, David Lloyd George was happily celebrating his 67th birthday. But most politically wise Britons surmised that the cocky little Welshman would think up plenty of drastic things to say about Viscount Grey's disturbance. Few if any could have foreseen the nature of his remarks. Summoning a meeting of the National Liberal Club, he extended toward his assailant a rhetorical glad hand which smacked much more of a rebuke than any amount of invective. Said he: "I appeal to Lord Grey not to discourage the party when...
...reputed $15,000,000 fund raised by Mr. Lloyd George in the last years of his Prime Ministry, allegedly by selling peerages. He insists that he has never put a penny of the money in his own pocket, keeps it in the mythical Party Oak Chest to which he alone has the metaphorical...